About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

● 1699 - Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed-Sept 1 to Jan 1

● 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army meets de Esk

● 1780 - England declares war on Netherlands

● 1790 - 1st successful US cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket RI)

● 1803 - Louisiana Purchase formally transferred from France to US for $27 million at a ceremony in New Orleans, without consultation with any of the native peoples living there.

● 1820 - The state of Missouri enacted legislation to tax bachelors between the ages of 21-50 for being unmarried. The tax was $1 a year.

● 1830 - England, France, Prussia, Austria & Russia recognize Belgium

● 1835 - Cherokee Indians forced to cede their Georgia lands and cross the Mississippi River when gold was discovered on their territory. The evacuation was carried out, during the winter of 1838-39, by federal troops commanded by General Winfield Scott. Along the way, 10% of the tribe was wiped out by disease, fatigue, and exposure. The march has hence been known as the "Trail of Tears."

● 1850 - Hawaiian post office established

● 1860 - In response to the victory of Republican Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election six weeks before, South Carolina becomes the first Southern state to secede from the United States. "Ordinance of Secession," declared that "the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved." South Carolina legislature voted 169-0 for the Ordinance of Secession.

● 1861 - Battle of Dranesville VA

● 1862 - Battle of Holly Spring MS

● 1862 - Battle of Kelly's Ford VA

● 1862 - Brigadier-General Nathan B Forrest occupies Trenton KY

● 1862 - Vicksburg campaign

● 1864 - Confederate forces evacuated Savannah, GA as Union Gen. William T. Sherman continued his "March to the Sea."

● 1864 - Battle of Fort Fisher NC

● 1865 - De Clear-Alkmaar railway opens

● 1876 - Hannah Omish at 12 is youngest person ever hanged in U.S.

● 1878 - Ezra Heywood, anarchist, imprisoned for "obscenity," pardoned by President Hayes after popular agitation for his release.

● 1902 - Birth of Miura Seiichi. Christian socialist who gave up religion in 1930, and became an anarcho-syndicalist when he met Sanshiro Ishikawa. Exiled to China in 1939 with Tsing-Tao when Japan became fascist. Returned December 1945. The following year, in Tokyo, helped found the Japanese Federation of anarchists, and assumed responsibility for the international section until 1969.

● 1905 - Start of eleven-day general strike against Tsarist regime in Russia.

● 1906 - Venezuela (under Vice-President Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet

● 1907 - Explosion at Yolande AL, coal mine kills 91

● 1915 - World War I: Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli.

● 1946 - The Frank Capra film "It's A Wonderful Life" had a preview showing for charity at New York City's Globe Theatre, a day before its "official" world premiere. James Stewart and Donna Reed star in the film.

● 1954 - Buick Motor Company signed Jackie Gleason to one of the largest contracts ever entered into with an entertainer. Gleason agreed to produce 78 half-hour shows over a two-year period for $6,142,500.

● 1984 - The Summit tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million litres of petrol derails near the town of Todmorden in the Pennines.

● 1984 - 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in the Yale library

● 1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1985 - Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC

● 1985 - Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st)

● 1986 - Three black men attacked by about a dozen bat-wielding young whites in Howard Beach neighborhood, Queens, New York City; one of them, Michael Griffith (23), hit by a car and dies during flight. A year and a day later, three of the whites are convicted of manslaughter in the death.

● 1987 - Worst peacetime shipping disaster, more than 3,000 people were killed when the Dona Paz, a Philippine passenger ship, collided with the tanker Vector off Mindoro island, setting off a double explosion.

● 1988 - The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.

● 1989 - U.S. invades Panama. Thousands of Panamanians die, leader Manuel Noriega jailed in U.S., drug running and corruption continue but with U.S. investor-friendly government. U.S. media bleats. Invasion force included 13,000 troops who join the approximately 12,000 American soldiers already stationed in the country. A watershed invasion, the first of a thus far endless post-Berlin Wall succession of them.

● 1989 - General Noriega, Panama's former dictator, was overthrown by a United States invasion force invited by the new civilian government. The project was known as Operation Just Cause. The only cause for the invasion is that Noriega stopped sharing his profits with the U. S.

● 1990 - Pentagon warns Saddam Hussein that US air power is ready to attack on 1/15

● 1990 - Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns

● 1990 - Reservist Dr. Yolanda Huet-Vaughn refuses orders for Gulf War, Kansas. She is later sentenced to prison, and the Kansas medical board strips Huet-Vaughn of her license to practice, because of her conscientious objection.

● 1996 - Doctors reported that a Cypriot woman who had taken fertility drugs was carrying about 11 embryos.

● 1998 - The United States' first major anti-road protest camp, trying to stop expansion of a freeway near Minneapolis, is broken up by 600 police.

● 1998 - In Houston, TX, a 27-year-old woman gave birth to the only known living set of octuplets.

● 1999 - Vermont's Supreme Court rules that homosexual couples are entitled to the same benefits and protections as married heterosexual couples.

● 1999 - Macau is handed over to the People's Republic of China by Portugal.

● 2001 - Argentinian president Fernando de la Rua resigns and flees the presidential compound in a helicopter as hundreds of thousands of protesters fill the streets of Buenos Aires and other Argentinian cities in response to IMF-imposed financial policies and the resulting economic crisis.

● 2001 - The U.S. Congress passed a $20 billion package to finance the war against terrorism taking place in Afghanistan.

● 2001 - The first British peacekeepers arrived in Afghanistan to help the nation heal after decades of war. If believe this crap, I have stunning ocean front property for sale in Montana.

● 2002 - The nation's 10 biggest brokerages agreed to pay $1.44 billion and fundamentally change the way they did business to settle allegations they'd misled investors by hyping certain stocks.

● 2002 - Trent Lott resigned as Senate Republican leader two weeks after igniting a political firestorm with racially charged remarks. He said it would have been a good thing for racist Strom Thurmond to have been elected president in 1948.

● 2005 - 2005 New York City transit strike: New York City's Transport Workers Union Local 100 goes on strike, shutting down all New York City Subway and Bus services for three days.

● 2005 - US District Court Judge John E. Jones III ruled against mandating teaching "intelligent design" in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District (Pennsylvania).

BIRTHS

● 1494 - Oronce Finé, French mathematician (d. 1555)

● 1537 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)

● 1552 - Death of Katherine von Bora, 53, a former nun and the widow of German reformer Martin Luther. They married in 1525, when Luther was 42 and Katie was 26, and bore six children. Luther died in 1546; Katie, six years later. Luther considered sex ‘a necessary evil of marriage’ for procreation only and not enjoyment.

● 1845 - Baldwin Institute was chartered in Berea, Ohio, by the Methodists. Changing its name in 1854 to Baldwin University, the college merged in 1914 with German Wallace College and adopted its present name: Baldwin Wallace University.

● 1856 - Newberry College was chartered in Newberry, SC, under Lutheran auspices. The campus moved to Walhalla, SC, in 1868, but returned to Newberry in 1877.

● Roman Catholic:● St. Dominic of Silos● St. O Clavis● St. Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne● St. Ammon● St. Dominic of Brescia● St. Julius● St. Liberatus & Bajulus● Bl. Peter de la Cadireta● St. Peter Thi● St. Philogonius

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 7 (Civil Date: December 20)● Nativity Fast.● St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan.● St. Anthony, abbot of Siya Monastery (Novgorod).● St. Nilus, monk of Stolbensk Lake.● St. Paul the Obedient.● St. John, faster of St. Sabbas' Monastery.● St. John, faster of the Kiev Caves.● Martyr Athenodorus of Mesopotamia.● St. Gregory the Silent of Mt. Athos.

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